This course focuses on listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in French in an introduction to literature and within a cultural context. FREN 2001, Intermediate French I, aims to build oral and written communication skills in French at the intermediate level and improve cultural awareness and literacy of the French-speaking world. FREN 2001 contributes to students’ education in the humanities by teaching both the French language and the humanistic cultures of the French-speaking world.